JUST two of Scotland’s 40 listed trading companies have so far hit a Government target for larger businesses of having at least 33 per cent of board positions filled by women With only five of the 103 executive directors at these businesses being female, the chairwoman of Women’s Enterprise Scotland said the progress being made is “astonishingly poor”. When non-executive directors are included, 17.1 per cent of board seats are occupied by women. Loading article content On a more positive note, within the 11 Scottish trading companies on the FTSE 350 list of the UK’s biggest businesses, this rises to 26.2 per cent, ahead of the FTSE 350 average of 24.5 per cent. And the total number of women sitting on the boards of Scottish trading companies listed on the London Stock Exchange has increased by five in the past year, to 50. But research by The Herald has also discovered that the number of females in executive positions within this group of 40 companies has fallen to just five, from eight last year. “Whatever way you look at it, the figures are astonishingly poor,” said Lynne Cadenhead. “The rate of change is at best glacial and there is no… Read full this story
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